<greek_philosophizer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1115748268.863774.68400@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
> Now that Solaris is migrating the init
> scripts to "services",
> I am wondering if they are
> an improvement.
>
> UNIX originally was characterized as simple and elegant.
>
> Services seem like neither.
>
> Are services an improvement? I suppose it might turn out
> to be useful to centralize the administration of
> startup processes.
>
> Anybody using this in production?
>
> .
>

Right off the bat after installing solaris 10 the first thing I noticed was
the insanly fast boot time, because services can now run in parrallel, boot
time has increased greatly.

SMF makes overall system management a breeze enable/disabling services is
such a snap, prior to solaris 10 trying to figure out the right combination
of services and what depencies they were link with was a bit tedious.

Its just a matter of time before more and more Unix and Unix like OS's adopt
a service management type facility, if you've used SUSE they already bundle
a tool that kind of handles disabling and start of services for you that
tool is called YAST and ask anyone who has to manage SUSE servers YAST makes
administation alot simpler.

I see this no different that what package managers did for Operating systems
a few years back.
Let SMF grow on you, you will love it.

--
Rodrick R. Brown
Unix Systems Administrator
rodrick.brown[@]gmail.com

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RB